Sadness just washes over me whenever I learn about someone dying.
My husband Ronnie and I visited his good friend at a hospital, who was told by doctors that he only has a few days to live because the other half of his heart had literally died.
Ronnie's good friend Ed is calm and relaxed when we arrived at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Presbyterian Hospital here at Huntersville despite all the tubes and machines attached to him in both sides.
Ed's entire family is here- two daughters and a son from Arkansas and Connecticut as well as his ex-wife and they had a reunion of sorts.
It was just sad listening to them and learning that someone they love has to leave soon. Ed said something to me like” the people we meet in our lives” because he knew that I would write about it.
Going home I asked Ronnie if Ed is aware that his days are numbered and Ronnie said yes.
Indeed life is strange- sometimes we are happy and then we are sad and by tomorrow someone we know and even love is gone tomorrow.
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